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Chicago examiner Chicago october 31 1911 16 pages tuesday vol ix no 269 a m tuesday registered m u 2i patent office price onf cfnt delivered by cÂ«r!Â«r constitution is granted to chinese throne humbly apologizes and gives in to parliament royalty gets no voice emperor surrenders right to power of life and 1 : | death j special cable to the examiner wuhu china oct 30 â€” admiral sah cheng ping has notified the for eign consuls at wuchang that he is i bout to bombard that city and has iked that they order all foreigners > leave the city at once special cable ta the examiner pekix oct 30 tlie complete down 11 of the chinese absolute monarchy rtok cc to-day when the throne granted the smand of the kational assembly for a complete constitutional government at this price the maochu dynasty may save i the reforms asked by the assembly sup jrted by srmy and navy threats of mu ny that left the imperial group no choice at surrender are most sweeping they lay be summarized as follows parliament with full power to revise the institution surrender by the emperor of absolute wer of life and death cabinet responsible to the people with reinier chosen by parliament royalty to be ineligible to the cabinet parliament to share the treaty-making power and bare full control over the throne to have no power over taxation saless authorized by parliament edict of boy emperor the edict which bears the signature of the boy emperor hsuan tung is as fol i have reijpied three years and have lways acted conscientiously m the iuter ebts of tho people but i have not em ployed men properly as i am without po litical skill 1 have employed too many nobles m political positions which contra venes constitutionalism on railway matters one whom i trusted deceived me hence public opinion was antagonized when i urge reforms officials and the sentry seize the opportunity to j embezzle much of the people's money has been taken but nothing to benefit the peo ple has been achieved on several occasions edicts have pro mulgated laws but none of them have been obeyed the people are grumbling yet i do not know disasters loom ahead but i do not see â€¢ admits it is his fault the edict then refers to the recent pro vincial disasters and continues the whole empire is seething the spir its of our nine deceased emperors are un able to enjoy the sacrillces properly while it is feared that the people will suffer jrrlevously au these things are my own fault and i hereby announce to the world that i tiwear to reform and with our sol diers and people to carry out the constitu tion faithfully modifying legislation pro moting the interests of the people and abolishing their hardships all m accord ance with their wishes and interests the old laws that are unsuitable will be Ã¼bol the union of the manchus and chinese mentioned by the late emperor i shall â€¢ arry ont now finances and diplomacy have reached bedrock even if all unite i etill fear that we may fall if the empire's subjects do not regard and do not bwnor fate and are easily misled by outlaws then the future of china is unthinkable a republic named kwang tung has been established by s the people of canton kwang tung province china it is report ed the mauehu garrison of the city has been guaranteed protection a wireless message from the british war mhips at hankow says the imperialists are turning the native city of hankow and uliat the entire advance of the government forces is marked with hideous brutality yuan shiu kai wj^o is believed to have oruught nbout this epoch-making change m china's affairs has been summoned to the capital and his hand it is expected will mold the now government imperials prepare attack . hankow china oct 30 the imperial forces are preparing to follow up their vic tory over the rebels last week by an at tack on wu-chang which the revolution ists have protected by elaborate emergency fortifications and hanyang which is re garded as of the utmost importance on account of the arsenal there a h kedler the american missionary who was wonnjed in friday's righting is tt Â« enons condition his injuries are iv the neck and arm he wÂ£s watching the ughting from the top of a building in the japanese concessions when he wan hit by v tray bullet mr kepler 1b attached to he presbyterian mission station at shaug girl's death rouses police inquiry begun by coroner i'm innocent monaco sobs miss ollie cole j'irm photograph published of girl wl'osc death i beiiig invehliguted parents of ollie cole alleged victim of asphyxiation silently start search for death cause the family of ouie cole found dead at 307 leavitt street where she was living as the wife of salvatore monaco a young medical student has employed private detectives to investigate the girl's death claimed to have been dy asphyxiation the body is m nor wich n v where it was sent to her mother mrs james cole and the family refuses to give out any details of the girl's life until the case has been investigated further coroner hoffman announced yesterday that he had sent to the girl's home for samples of her handwriting and that he would compare it with the note found m her room said to have been written by her mrs cole the girl's mother said yesterday that her daughter alice was married by justice fred mallory march 30 1909 to john lutz she left norwich the week following lfwt christmas and was for a time em ployed in a state street store she was twenty-one years old her husband is at present at portsmouth n h on board the united states steamship wisconsin monaco the picture of grief salvatore monaco is the picture of grief and discouragement he told his story yesterday with a tremendous effort that resulted m a forced composure his fingers were interlocked so tightly that the nails cut into the flesh and he bit his lips to keep back the teafs over and over again she was a fine girl just a fine girl he said and he threw his head back and looked his interviewer straight m the eyes she had a fine character and m spite of the fact that he said he found miss cole m a questionable place m dearborn street m april and took her from there to rooms where she could live as his wife he said the best things of her . did she think you loved her he was asked with a sincerity that was unmistakable he saiu she knew it when asked if he ever intended to marry the girl he said no i didn't intend to mtrry her she didn't ask it she never even mentioned iti she used to say to me do you suppose we will be together next year or year after and i always told her the truth that i felt sure we would be i never thought of giving her up oh the pain of losing her is enough without all this suspicion on me and the young man seemed distracted she had become a part of my llfe v and i don't see how i can erer get along without her she was a fine girl a good girl student but short time in america the young man who introduced miss cole ub his wife is a greek j and has been iv this country but three years his father and mother j do not speak english he says he has never gone with girls at all and that since he came to Chicago the girl who passed as his wife is the only women he has known she was the only girl m my life he said with a shrug of his shoulders i loved her and i thought i had done a fine thing to bring her out of a life of shame and give her a life that was at least a thousand times more decent she was a girl of character or she wouldn't have been content to ftave the brilliant lights and the fancy clothes and come uud share my small allowance and be true to me but they say he was told that it looked suspicious for you to stay away from your rooming house after the girl's death they say you didn't want to look at her my no i should say i didn't ami t lit niedirul siuiiuii put his hands up to his eyes ab if to shut out the vision he badt i looked subtreasury teller trailed takes acid f loring lathrop bridegroom of 4 months fearing de tectives seeks death denies office shortage suicide attempt in loop hotel unaccounted for by his wife f loring lothrop twenty-eight years old teller ln the snbtreasury here and married only four months ago swallowed carbolic add in the lavatory of the hotel victoria west van buren and south clark streets last night in an attempt to commit suicide after he had been revived by dr c wall ambulauce physician of the south clark street police statiou_he said he had been driven to the act by worry over the constant watch that has been kept on hii-i for some months by secret service men he said he knew of nothing wrong in the subtreasury and that his own accounts were correct but believed something bad happened there and that suspicion had been attached to him the surveillance by secret service men had been so constant lt worked on his nerves he said and led hliu to try to en his life buys acid in loop lotbrop went to two drugstores i'l the downtown district last night and bought two bottle of carbolic acid he entered the elevator in the hotel at 30 o'clock and going into the men's lavatory ln the basement he locked the door from the inside and swallowed half the contents of one of the bottles clerks ln the hotel bearing his cries climbed over the transom and found him lying on the boor unconscious they summoned dr strlngfield and after lotbrop was revived be was taken to tut emergency hospital at the south clark street police tsation when he was able to talk be was questfoned by sergeant mcsween and told the officer he had seen two men from the secret service depart ment watching his home several times when abked if he was short in any of his accounts lothrop said nothing was wrong with them his wife was summoned shortly after he was able to walk and she told the police that she knew of no reason for his trying to commit suicide saw no secret agents i have never seen any secret service men around the house said mrs lothrop frank c russell cashier of the sub treasury last night declared that so far as he knew lothrop was not short ln his accounts and could give no reason for his act i have known lothrop about four years said russell last night and he ap peared to be a man without bad habits he is not short in his accounts and i don't think he was being shadowed by of ficers he came to the subtreasury a short time after the 173,000 robbery booker t on cash mania washington says negro cannot be . segregated from whites nbwburgh n v oct w booker t washington has no faith m the white man's permitting the negro to get a dollar ahead so long as the white man can get a chance at it first last night he was the guest of dr t/yman abbott at cornwall and spoke along these lines to the largest assemblage ever gathered m the village dr washington said a great many promi nent men expressed their opinion that the negro race should be kept to itself dr washington said it would need many walls to keep the white men out as they would be afraid they would miss a dollar which they are always nfter miss meyer now a voter sister of secretary of navy registers at lenox mass lenox mase oct 30 miss helolsei meyer sister of secretary of the navy ' meyer drove up to the lenox town hall m her electric automobile to-day and an nounced that she wished to become a registered voter m the town 8h quickly proved to the satisfaction of the board that she could rend and write and her name was added to the list as the first wnman voter m lenox by law in this state she can vote for school commissioner at the spring town meetings taxi rides at 25 cents company accepts franchise and says it can make profit montclair n j oct 10 this city is to have the cheapest taxlcab servlee m the world a company which hai just obtained a franchise has ngn-ed that tuo rate is to be no higher than that charged by the iocs hackmen which is 25 cents te any part of the town bÂ»fore id o'clock at nigiit the distance that may b traveled at this rate approximates three miles the promoters of the enterprise bay the cau operate profitably at these ate Taft admits fear of 1912 defeat speech causes political blues hamilton club luncheon gloomy c 0 p is facing great crisis he declares if there is a change m gov ernment we must sup port it loyally to solve trust problem president asserts republicans will yet bring order out of business chaos before leaving Chicago for the east yesterday afternoon president Taft sang what might be considered his swan song he conceded that the republican party and its policies may be defeated at the presidential election m 1912 it was m his speech at the luncheon given for him by the hamilton club at the hotel la salle the last function of his three-day visit in Chicago that the president discussed the question of the defeat of the republicans m the na tional election he admitted that the party has reached a critical stage of its history his remarks brought a chill to the soo members of the rock-ribbed republican organization who were entertaining him las their guest of honor the admission by Taft that republican ! defeat was even a possibility caused a j sensation and was the universal topic of conversation m political circles it was a shock as well as a surprise to his audience after conceding that the democrats may win m 1912 mr Taft declared that m case there is to be a change m the national administration his followers and himself would give loyal support to the new government consoles with hope realizing that his words had trans formed his erstwhile cheerful auditors into a gathering of glooms the presi dent tried to console tnem by expressing the hope that the people knew a good thing and would not make a change his hearers laughed and cheered at the speaker's intimation that he considered he would be v good tnlng as a candidate for re-election but they relapsed iuto the political blues when it dawned on them that he entertained a suspicion that he would be defeated by the democracy it he should again be nominated by his party we're at a crisis m the history of ui republican party some people think said president Taft it is a crisis that has to do with the question of the continuance of the republican party m power in ta control of the government 1 hope how ever that there will be uo change i am hopeful that the people know a soou thing when they see it hopes still to hold reins we have been chastened iv recent elec tions but 1 think the people intended only to make us better and more careful m th future by chastening us a bit m off years as they have sometimes done m the paat i hope the people have no iuteutiou of shifting the burdens of government from the shoulders that have borne them so well during the period of our greatest prosperity to the untried shoulders of men with new policies and new theories of action wbiuli we do not believe m and do not belief the people believe m i still if the people desiro a change jif the change must come theu j h iiud 1 must loyally support the government placed m powe by the people and will hope than the change may result iv the bt-t iui of all then if after a trial the people wai;r to go back to the old party we cau bea wat experience with the onso'"i ,-. it will de oily four years of waiting ' what obviously was a reference to the trust-dusting operations of his admin istration was made by mr Taft ivheu n spoke of the trust problems as little difficulties i don't want to mii.'imlze tbos culties but i believe they are capÂ«*me ot solution when we measure these v b culties with tlie problems that already bava been met by tliu republican party br<?f ning m 38u1 undit that saint abnÂ».'u . lincoln [â– tuink tbej are smai wblli difficult enough for n thtj are cvi : isms we ticuld ran awaj from we should t;rit oar teeth uud them m the only pathway that the !â€¢* president taft's swan song these are the words ; which brought gloom j to the hamilton club i vi7'e are at a crisis m j i . the history of the ; ' republican party some i people think it is a crisis j i that has to do with the j question of the continu j ance of the republican j ; party m power â€” m the j i control of the govern ! ment i hope however that there will be no j ! change lam hopeful that ; the people know a good ; thing when they see it ! president Taft m'kinley broke loeb to the rescue Illinois congressman finds himself m pawn at new york custom house william loeb jr collector of customs for the port of new york is for his reg ular job the terror the bugaboo and the goblin in the dark for americans return iug from europe but upon occasions â€” perhaps very rare occasions mr loeb is the savior and the helping hand of the home-faring trav eler and william b mckinley congress man for the nineteenth Illinois district is exhibit a m mr loeb's book of refer ences to that effect mr mckinley arrived from europe fri day bringing with him three nieces and trunks and things that required nearly 400 to get â€” the trunks and things â€” through the customs house mr mckinley did not have the 400 so he borrowed it from mr loeb mr mckinley arrived m Chicago yester uay the best part of the story is that i got the money mr mckinley said iv piling the story if i hadn't â€” well i guess i would have been in jail instead of here for i did not have it that would have been sad for i wanted to get home to see the president while he was here so i am for loeb mr mckinley went to europe to attend the peace conference at rome almost as soon as he reached there italy started a war no soul says scientist philadelphia pa oct 30 â€” dr max verworm professor of phslology at the university of bonn germany for merly of gottingeu in an address to the medical faculty of the university of penn sylvnnla argues that to-day there is no such thing as immortal life no contin uance after death and no immortality of the soul Taft peeks at pretty debutantes through curtain hole presi dential eye gleams on rainbow girls ' ! tue presffient peeked yes he did straight through a broad mesh m the balcony curtain above the crystal ballroom of the blackstone hotel president william h Taft yesterday af ternoon for ten full minutes brought the city's hospitality to a standstill while like a famished small boy he stole glimpses at the debutante luncheon of mrs walter ferrler iv honor of her niece miss leonore kay my my but it's fascinating drawled the president screwing up his eye ami craning forward to get a better view such lovely women and " major butt clanked his sword warningly below m the corridor a whole deputation delayed " and such pretty pretty food fin ished the president wltli many a back ward look it seems as if about all they do in Chicago is to lunch and dine and the chief executive heaved a sigh three hundred at rainbow tables below in the ballroom around a dozen rose and butterfly decorated tables jjoo girls young women and matrons sat and planned to rush upstairs and kidnap the president and bring him down to the party all unconscious that at that very moment the presidential eye was firmly fixed upon them yesterday's debutante is very small and comfortably slender blonde pretty and with a charming manner she is much like her aunt mrs barrier m the lat ter's girlhood days miss ray was gowned yesterday in a simple wnite frock of silk muslin over messaline picked out with touches of turquoise blue and she carried a huge bouquet of white roses mrs fer rler was in white satm under gold net wore a corsage bouquet or orchids and diamond ornaments she was looking her very best and extremely happy mrs alexander ray the debutante's mother wore an emerald green satin with draped i tunic of gold net and diamonds after the luncheon ended led by mrs j lewis k torbet the little debutante and her assistants were escorted to the presi dential suite for an informal reception president m confession . and then the president confessed i looked m on you my dear he said smiling very fatherly at miss ray and 1 wish you all the happiness that life can bring then he turned for handshakings with ber assistants hazel hanecy very lovely m greea satin and white chiffon trimmed m black fur a tremendous black hat huge pearl earrings and an enormous corsage bouquet all of which made her slenderness still more slender beatrice car penter rosy and sweet m white lace and atm and her guest miss leslie wilkie of jacksonville m a white satin under chan tllly lace with big black hat and heavy necklace mlhs wilkie is a pretty girl with tho inuot-ent eyes und rosebud mouth of a two-year-old then came gladys donahue continued en 4th page 3d column continued on 24 pÂ«g 2d column ar>4 cooler tuesday with showers m m s^oi â– morning wednesday fair and w bt i 7i 7 ' cc Â° 011 moderate north to northwest f i^^ftp'^s winds uange of temperature â€ž ' llghest 46 * mt)i lowest 41 vy average '. 44 enprwy n * / < t"~~|he poison m the grotesque globe fish hitherto used for -" =Â» murder and suicide may now wipe out the world's scourge read about it m next . sunday's unmiiÃŸer order from your aaaitr iu-diiy wvjjxljrl ijn vlij 1 icja 1 lon offers of service by governesses nurse maids housekeepers domestics and workers of other kinds not forgetting cooks are beyond doubt worth investigation ' you will find the very best of this class oi lielp offering their services m the situation waited columns on the examiner want ad pages

Chicago examiner Chicago october 31 1911 16 pages tuesday vol ix no 269 a m tuesday registered m u 2i patent office price onf cfnt delivered by cÂ«r!Â«r constitution is granted to chinese throne humbly apologizes and gives in to parliament royalty gets no voice emperor surrenders right to power of life and 1 : | death j special cable to the examiner wuhu china oct 30 â€” admiral sah cheng ping has notified the for eign consuls at wuchang that he is i bout to bombard that city and has iked that they order all foreigners > leave the city at once special cable ta the examiner pekix oct 30 tlie complete down 11 of the chinese absolute monarchy rtok cc to-day when the throne granted the smand of the kational assembly for a complete constitutional government at this price the maochu dynasty may save i the reforms asked by the assembly sup jrted by srmy and navy threats of mu ny that left the imperial group no choice at surrender are most sweeping they lay be summarized as follows parliament with full power to revise the institution surrender by the emperor of absolute wer of life and death cabinet responsible to the people with reinier chosen by parliament royalty to be ineligible to the cabinet parliament to share the treaty-making power and bare full control over the throne to have no power over taxation saless authorized by parliament edict of boy emperor the edict which bears the signature of the boy emperor hsuan tung is as fol i have reijpied three years and have lways acted conscientiously m the iuter ebts of tho people but i have not em ployed men properly as i am without po litical skill 1 have employed too many nobles m political positions which contra venes constitutionalism on railway matters one whom i trusted deceived me hence public opinion was antagonized when i urge reforms officials and the sentry seize the opportunity to j embezzle much of the people's money has been taken but nothing to benefit the peo ple has been achieved on several occasions edicts have pro mulgated laws but none of them have been obeyed the people are grumbling yet i do not know disasters loom ahead but i do not see â€¢ admits it is his fault the edict then refers to the recent pro vincial disasters and continues the whole empire is seething the spir its of our nine deceased emperors are un able to enjoy the sacrillces properly while it is feared that the people will suffer jrrlevously au these things are my own fault and i hereby announce to the world that i tiwear to reform and with our sol diers and people to carry out the constitu tion faithfully modifying legislation pro moting the interests of the people and abolishing their hardships all m accord ance with their wishes and interests the old laws that are unsuitable will be Ã¼bol the union of the manchus and chinese mentioned by the late emperor i shall â€¢ arry ont now finances and diplomacy have reached bedrock even if all unite i etill fear that we may fall if the empire's subjects do not regard and do not bwnor fate and are easily misled by outlaws then the future of china is unthinkable a republic named kwang tung has been established by s the people of canton kwang tung province china it is report ed the mauehu garrison of the city has been guaranteed protection a wireless message from the british war mhips at hankow says the imperialists are turning the native city of hankow and uliat the entire advance of the government forces is marked with hideous brutality yuan shiu kai wj^o is believed to have oruught nbout this epoch-making change m china's affairs has been summoned to the capital and his hand it is expected will mold the now government imperials prepare attack . hankow china oct 30 the imperial forces are preparing to follow up their vic tory over the rebels last week by an at tack on wu-chang which the revolution ists have protected by elaborate emergency fortifications and hanyang which is re garded as of the utmost importance on account of the arsenal there a h kedler the american missionary who was wonnjed in friday's righting is tt Â« enons condition his injuries are iv the neck and arm he wÂ£s watching the ughting from the top of a building in the japanese concessions when he wan hit by v tray bullet mr kepler 1b attached to he presbyterian mission station at shaug girl's death rouses police inquiry begun by coroner i'm innocent monaco sobs miss ollie cole j'irm photograph published of girl wl'osc death i beiiig invehliguted parents of ollie cole alleged victim of asphyxiation silently start search for death cause the family of ouie cole found dead at 307 leavitt street where she was living as the wife of salvatore monaco a young medical student has employed private detectives to investigate the girl's death claimed to have been dy asphyxiation the body is m nor wich n v where it was sent to her mother mrs james cole and the family refuses to give out any details of the girl's life until the case has been investigated further coroner hoffman announced yesterday that he had sent to the girl's home for samples of her handwriting and that he would compare it with the note found m her room said to have been written by her mrs cole the girl's mother said yesterday that her daughter alice was married by justice fred mallory march 30 1909 to john lutz she left norwich the week following lfwt christmas and was for a time em ployed in a state street store she was twenty-one years old her husband is at present at portsmouth n h on board the united states steamship wisconsin monaco the picture of grief salvatore monaco is the picture of grief and discouragement he told his story yesterday with a tremendous effort that resulted m a forced composure his fingers were interlocked so tightly that the nails cut into the flesh and he bit his lips to keep back the teafs over and over again she was a fine girl just a fine girl he said and he threw his head back and looked his interviewer straight m the eyes she had a fine character and m spite of the fact that he said he found miss cole m a questionable place m dearborn street m april and took her from there to rooms where she could live as his wife he said the best things of her . did she think you loved her he was asked with a sincerity that was unmistakable he saiu she knew it when asked if he ever intended to marry the girl he said no i didn't intend to mtrry her she didn't ask it she never even mentioned iti she used to say to me do you suppose we will be together next year or year after and i always told her the truth that i felt sure we would be i never thought of giving her up oh the pain of losing her is enough without all this suspicion on me and the young man seemed distracted she had become a part of my llfe v and i don't see how i can erer get along without her she was a fine girl a good girl student but short time in america the young man who introduced miss cole ub his wife is a greek j and has been iv this country but three years his father and mother j do not speak english he says he has never gone with girls at all and that since he came to Chicago the girl who passed as his wife is the only women he has known she was the only girl m my life he said with a shrug of his shoulders i loved her and i thought i had done a fine thing to bring her out of a life of shame and give her a life that was at least a thousand times more decent she was a girl of character or she wouldn't have been content to ftave the brilliant lights and the fancy clothes and come uud share my small allowance and be true to me but they say he was told that it looked suspicious for you to stay away from your rooming house after the girl's death they say you didn't want to look at her my no i should say i didn't ami t lit niedirul siuiiuii put his hands up to his eyes ab if to shut out the vision he badt i looked subtreasury teller trailed takes acid f loring lathrop bridegroom of 4 months fearing de tectives seeks death denies office shortage suicide attempt in loop hotel unaccounted for by his wife f loring lothrop twenty-eight years old teller ln the snbtreasury here and married only four months ago swallowed carbolic add in the lavatory of the hotel victoria west van buren and south clark streets last night in an attempt to commit suicide after he had been revived by dr c wall ambulauce physician of the south clark street police statiou_he said he had been driven to the act by worry over the constant watch that has been kept on hii-i for some months by secret service men he said he knew of nothing wrong in the subtreasury and that his own accounts were correct but believed something bad happened there and that suspicion had been attached to him the surveillance by secret service men had been so constant lt worked on his nerves he said and led hliu to try to en his life buys acid in loop lotbrop went to two drugstores i'l the downtown district last night and bought two bottle of carbolic acid he entered the elevator in the hotel at 30 o'clock and going into the men's lavatory ln the basement he locked the door from the inside and swallowed half the contents of one of the bottles clerks ln the hotel bearing his cries climbed over the transom and found him lying on the boor unconscious they summoned dr strlngfield and after lotbrop was revived be was taken to tut emergency hospital at the south clark street police tsation when he was able to talk be was questfoned by sergeant mcsween and told the officer he had seen two men from the secret service depart ment watching his home several times when abked if he was short in any of his accounts lothrop said nothing was wrong with them his wife was summoned shortly after he was able to walk and she told the police that she knew of no reason for his trying to commit suicide saw no secret agents i have never seen any secret service men around the house said mrs lothrop frank c russell cashier of the sub treasury last night declared that so far as he knew lothrop was not short ln his accounts and could give no reason for his act i have known lothrop about four years said russell last night and he ap peared to be a man without bad habits he is not short in his accounts and i don't think he was being shadowed by of ficers he came to the subtreasury a short time after the 173,000 robbery booker t on cash mania washington says negro cannot be . segregated from whites nbwburgh n v oct w booker t washington has no faith m the white man's permitting the negro to get a dollar ahead so long as the white man can get a chance at it first last night he was the guest of dr t/yman abbott at cornwall and spoke along these lines to the largest assemblage ever gathered m the village dr washington said a great many promi nent men expressed their opinion that the negro race should be kept to itself dr washington said it would need many walls to keep the white men out as they would be afraid they would miss a dollar which they are always nfter miss meyer now a voter sister of secretary of navy registers at lenox mass lenox mase oct 30 miss helolsei meyer sister of secretary of the navy ' meyer drove up to the lenox town hall m her electric automobile to-day and an nounced that she wished to become a registered voter m the town 8h quickly proved to the satisfaction of the board that she could rend and write and her name was added to the list as the first wnman voter m lenox by law in this state she can vote for school commissioner at the spring town meetings taxi rides at 25 cents company accepts franchise and says it can make profit montclair n j oct 10 this city is to have the cheapest taxlcab servlee m the world a company which hai just obtained a franchise has ngn-ed that tuo rate is to be no higher than that charged by the iocs hackmen which is 25 cents te any part of the town bÂ»fore id o'clock at nigiit the distance that may b traveled at this rate approximates three miles the promoters of the enterprise bay the cau operate profitably at these ate Taft admits fear of 1912 defeat speech causes political blues hamilton club luncheon gloomy c 0 p is facing great crisis he declares if there is a change m gov ernment we must sup port it loyally to solve trust problem president asserts republicans will yet bring order out of business chaos before leaving Chicago for the east yesterday afternoon president Taft sang what might be considered his swan song he conceded that the republican party and its policies may be defeated at the presidential election m 1912 it was m his speech at the luncheon given for him by the hamilton club at the hotel la salle the last function of his three-day visit in Chicago that the president discussed the question of the defeat of the republicans m the na tional election he admitted that the party has reached a critical stage of its history his remarks brought a chill to the soo members of the rock-ribbed republican organization who were entertaining him las their guest of honor the admission by Taft that republican ! defeat was even a possibility caused a j sensation and was the universal topic of conversation m political circles it was a shock as well as a surprise to his audience after conceding that the democrats may win m 1912 mr Taft declared that m case there is to be a change m the national administration his followers and himself would give loyal support to the new government consoles with hope realizing that his words had trans formed his erstwhile cheerful auditors into a gathering of glooms the presi dent tried to console tnem by expressing the hope that the people knew a good thing and would not make a change his hearers laughed and cheered at the speaker's intimation that he considered he would be v good tnlng as a candidate for re-election but they relapsed iuto the political blues when it dawned on them that he entertained a suspicion that he would be defeated by the democracy it he should again be nominated by his party we're at a crisis m the history of ui republican party some people think said president Taft it is a crisis that has to do with the question of the continuance of the republican party m power in ta control of the government 1 hope how ever that there will be uo change i am hopeful that the people know a soou thing when they see it hopes still to hold reins we have been chastened iv recent elec tions but 1 think the people intended only to make us better and more careful m th future by chastening us a bit m off years as they have sometimes done m the paat i hope the people have no iuteutiou of shifting the burdens of government from the shoulders that have borne them so well during the period of our greatest prosperity to the untried shoulders of men with new policies and new theories of action wbiuli we do not believe m and do not belief the people believe m i still if the people desiro a change jif the change must come theu j h iiud 1 must loyally support the government placed m powe by the people and will hope than the change may result iv the bt-t iui of all then if after a trial the people wai;r to go back to the old party we cau bea wat experience with the onso'"i ,-. it will de oily four years of waiting ' what obviously was a reference to the trust-dusting operations of his admin istration was made by mr Taft ivheu n spoke of the trust problems as little difficulties i don't want to mii.'imlze tbos culties but i believe they are capÂ«*me ot solution when we measure these v b culties with tlie problems that already bava been met by tliu republican party br4 cooler tuesday with showers m m s^oi â– morning wednesday fair and w bt i 7i 7 ' cc Â° 011 moderate north to northwest f i^^ftp'^s winds uange of temperature â€ž ' llghest 46 * mt)i lowest 41 vy average '. 44 enprwy n * / < t"~~|he poison m the grotesque globe fish hitherto used for -" =Â» murder and suicide may now wipe out the world's scourge read about it m next . sunday's unmiiÃŸer order from your aaaitr iu-diiy wvjjxljrl ijn vlij 1 icja 1 lon offers 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